AMD cuts sales and profit targets

AMD cuts sales and profit targets

The U.S. chip maker AMD cuts its sales and profit targets for the third
quarter. The sales will grow over the second quarter by only 6 percent,
the company announced after U.S. market close. The main reason may be
problems in the production of AMD's Dresden plant's partner Global
Foundries, the production of the Llano notebook processors have slowed
down. The gross profit margin will likely be 44-45 percent.

Most recently, the management nor a sales increase of 10 percent in
prospect, according to a variation of two percentage points above and
below. The profit margin should reach around 47 percent. The full
quarterly report, AMD plans on 27 October release. In the second
quarter, AMD increase its market share.

Debate about anonymity and pseudonyms in the network continues

Debate about anonymity and pseudonyms in the network continues

The support of Google, widely prescribed for the recently opened his own real name and social network off pseudonymous profiles excited resentment and further intensified the debate over anonymity on the Internet too. At the annual congress of the Association for the Advancement of search engine technology and the free access to knowledge SuMa rebuked by Christian Heller himself a representative of the "Post Privacy Spackeria" the default for Google + users as undue paternalism. "I want to get in the communications room of Google no rules," the proponent of the thesis "Prima live without privacy." Everyone should be free to the net "with nickname" act.

Heller complained that spread next to the state with its exaggerated privacy policies of other powers such as Google or Facebook. It was therefore important to work on decentralization and to oppose standardization attempts of both sides.

Dissatisfied with the response of search engines place on Hirsch's an open letter from the Internet community with the requirement to allow pseudonyms + Google showed the Internet entrepreneur Christoph Kappes. The group had initially reacted quickly and announced a reply, but this is far failed. Instead, to demand an interview offer had come in which the petitioner, but should probably only be reiterated Google's position, with the provision that prevents spam and conversation levels to be increased. "I begin to consider whether a test case can be made," said Kappes. In general, the expert working group in power politics of the CDU protection zones deems necessary. Anonymity and pseudonymity are the continuation of privacy from the carbon world. At the same time, however, would be "movement traces in the digital space as well given" acceptable.

Konstantin von Notz, network spokesman for the Greens in the Bundestag lamented a "sinister alliance between Google and the interior minister" in the quest to limit the anonymity of the net. The private and the intimate sphere are the basis for a life in human dignity. The legislature must therefore protect it with a proper legal framework, civil rights, including the right to privacy belongs. For instance, if a user searches on the net looking for symptoms, go nobody's business. The opposition leader also reminded of the requirement in the Telemedia Act (TMG), which would provide equivalent service provider opportunities for anonymity and pseudonyms.

The legal situation is not entirely clear, however, from Münster, media lawyers said Pascal Schumacher. In addition to the relevant paragraphs in the TMG there is still some offsetting legal obligations for general information requirements for media services on the network. In his view, a lot of talk that a profile is subject to a social network that condition. Among experts, this view is controversial, since an appearance on social networks, even for a closed user group can be opened. On the other hand, Schumacher admitted that in the analog world, anonymously published books or letters give.

Is that the "problem of the real names" only come up with Google + so strong, Linus Neumann said of the digital society, with the thesis that "all the Twitterers" long shunned services like Facebook, Google would have but stormed +. When you delete pseudonymous accounts the great disillusionment had occurred. Principal concern in his view, have privacy advocates and representatives of post-privacy-together with the power to get those "who have all the data."

U.S. antitrust hook guard at Motorola after takeover

U.S. antitrust hook guard at Motorola after takeover

The Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice has requested
additional information from the Internet service provider Google on its
takeover plans for Motorola Mobility. Such a "second request" was
nothing unusual and had been previously made available to his company,
Dennis Woodside, wrote on the Google blog.

Google announced in mid-August to try to take over the cell phone
manufacturer for 12.5 billion U.S. dollars. The 30-day review period has
the cartel guards apparently not enough to dispel all doubts. Woodside
said he was confident that competition will not affect the "very
dynamic" market of mobile phone manufacturers with the acquisition.

Such "second requests" for acquisitions of this caliber are not
uncommon, said the Wall Street Journal. She did not mean that the
acquisition must fail. About 4 percent of the planned mergers in the
past year, the U.S. antitrust guards have not had inquiries.

Chip manufacturers to cooperate in 45-inch-wafer technology

Chip manufacturers to cooperate in 45-inch-wafer technology

The U.S. state of New York, where IBM's chip plant in East Fishkill, the Albany Nanotech Complex and soon Globalfoundries' Fab 8 are located, is pleased with further investments: the rival chip maker Globalfoundries, IBM, Intel, Samsung and TSMC together invest 4.4 billion U.S. dollars in the development of manufacturing technology of semiconductor devices on silicon wafers 450 millimeters in diameter.


Inspection System for 45-inch wafer of Nanophotonics.
Image: Nanophotonics Ltd. The change from the previously processed in high volume production of logic and memory chips, silicon wafers with a diameter of 30 cm (12 inches) on the 45-inch wafer has been controversial for years because very large investments are needed and many technical problems must be solved. Proponents - including market leader Intel - keep the move as necessary to keep Moore's Law can. The transition from 20 - to 30-inch wheels began about 10 years ago, yet today many products that require relatively little chip area or run in smaller quantities, manufactured on 200-mm-(8-inch) plants.

The governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo, presented the total of about 6900 [6] new jobs over the next five years in the foreground. The State of New York will pay but no direct subsidies to the companies mentioned, but invest 400 million U.S. dollars in the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) in Albany, which belongs to the University of Ney York (SUNY).

Some of the participating companies have teamed up to 450 Global Consortium. They want their cooperation, even smaller suppliers to develop the necessary machinery and equipment allow. Sematech, the industry association participates in the International Sematech Manufacturing Initiative (ISMI) to help coordinate the transition to the new manufacturing process. The European institute IMEC in Belgium is also pursuing a 450-mm development program. German companies, such as the Mainz GmbH Nanophotonics provide facilities for 450-mm fabs, such as inspection equipment.

LED patent dispute is now Audi and BMW

LED patent dispute is now Audi and BMW

Of the patent dispute over so-called pseudo-white LEDs from Osram on the one hand and its Korean competitors Samsung and LG on the other side are in Korea now, vehicle manufacturers Audi and BMW hit. The group companies LG Electronics and LG Innotek had applied in July at the South Korean antitrust authorities a comprehensive import ban on products with the controversial Osram LEDs, reports now include the Korea Times. Let us try now to reach a complete ban imports of cars from Audi and BMW, therefore, an LG spokesman said on Wednesday: So would the two car makers while other destinations of legal struggle, but am still focusing Osram. LG will expand the patent litigation against the Siemens subsidiary to other countries.


He has shown at the IAA in September except Concept Audi A2 LED headlights and a revolving band of light.
Image: heise Cars / Archives The car manufacturers use LEDs that emit white light, increasing for car headlights. Although, according to Automobilwoche the Bavarian Motor Works have sold last year in Korea just 19 000 cars, and Audi came up with only 8000 vehicles, but LED lights are partly due to its energy efficiency as a growth market - such as a battery-light for electric cars. White LEDs are currently most in demand in the booming flat-panel displays. Osram had sued Samsung and LG in June in Germany and the USA, and LG in China and Japan for patent infringement, whereupon the two Korean companies each in turn sued Osram.

In contrast to halogen lamps with LED-based car headlamps promise a better illumination of the road, they are less dazzle and a more pleasing color temperature than xenon light, and they are considered more durable and more energy efficient than these two popular technologies headlights. Also allow LEDs more creative freedom, both in the form of lamps and lighting design itself: Available as a smooth transition between low and high beam light and an automatic adjustment of the beam to the left or right movement are due on or switching off certain lights . With the Concept A2] Audi revealed at the IAA 2011, a drawn around the whole body light bar with different signaling functions.

BVDW privacy advocates criticized stance to Facebook

BVDW privacy advocates criticized stance to Facebook

The Federal Association of Digital Economy (BVDW) calls the Independent Data Protection Centre (ULD) in Schleswig-Holstein, its fine to use threats against companies and government agencies, the Facebook services on their websites to take back. The ULD, in the opinion of the BVDW open issues and its privacy-rights critique first to clarify the usual formal way with the operator of the Social Network, said in a release of the BVDW. The privacy advocates have instead brought his blanket with the impression of a deputy press release debate ultimately political aims. This does not correspond to the order of a regulatory authority.

The association finds it objectionable, konfrontrieren to the website operator, issued a press release with a fine penalty, especially since it had not previously been any dialogue with the digital economy. For smaller website operators is the risk of a penalty method, an existential and not because of legal uncertainty in estimating the threat, so they would remain for no other way to remove a Facebook plug-ins. So they "de-coupled from a now internationally popular communication and marketing tool" would.

The ULD was threatened with fines of up to 50,000 euros if the web site operator can not disable the "Facebook-range analysis." The BVDW is not alone with his criticism of it. Recently, the ULD was during a debate in parliament in Kiel rebuke from different parties. Prime Minister Peter Harry Carstensen (CDU) said that threats were counterproductive and legally questionable. The Greens were against an "island solution" and the FDP demanded a "certain calmness" in dealing with the Internet and Facebook and other social networks.

[Update: In the dispute, it will leave the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) of Schleswig-Holstein necessary to arrive at a test case. The Chamber will use Facebook and other networks continue to communicate with their members and pit them against the ULD ultimatum, said the legal expert of the Chamber of Commerce, Marcus Schween, on Wednesday in Lübeck. "We take privacy very seriously, but here he is to be made on the shoulders of the Schleswig-Holstein company."]

Educational researchers calms German companies

Educational researchers calms German companies

According to an early September presented  OECD education study Germany runs the risk of being left behind in higher education. Gain only about 26 percent of all young adults after recent surveys have a university degree or master's certificate, the average of the 34 OECD member countries is 37 percent. With 46 percent of the student rate last year reached a record level in Germany while - but the OECD average is 59 percent.

In an interview  for the October issue of Techn View   puts education researcher Ernst Hartmann of the Institute for Innovation and Technology of the VDI / VDE Innovation + Technik Ltd., the negative image of Germany, however, very clear: the most used indicators in the OECD study concern "only formal educational qualifications," said Hartmann. "Formal learning is important, no question, but the fact that a company employs many graduates will still not automatically lead to good new products, the key questions are yet.. What do I do with these highly qualified people"

Germany enjoys the other hand, the structures that would foster an "informal learning in enterprises" in the company. "The data on such informal learning in the workplace but also systematically collected, but not usually been associated with innovation indicators such as patents or new products is what we have now done -. And found very interesting correlations". Accordingly, Denmark, Germany and Sweden belong to the countries with the "highest Lernintenistät" My Computer. "Then there are countries that still have a relatively high learning intensity in the work, but mediocre innovation, such as Norway, Malta and Estonia, and there are countries that reach this average level of innovation with lower educational intensities, such as Ireland, Greece, Cyprus," says Hartmann.